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This article about canonicalization might help: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

Technically the pages are the same - but using a 301 will point the search engine to just look at and rank the link "domains.com/keyword-is-here" versus the index.html that goes along with that keyword? Is this correct? Thanks!